Fuck Nebraska. No, seriously, the Cornhusker State just banned all pornographic material in prisons. All. The Nebraska Corrections Department defined pornography as “depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement” and materials with “nudity and/or graphic depictions of sexual behaviors/acts.” In a memo announcing the change, effective January 8, 2018, State Corrections Director Scott Frakes said that allowing pornography was “counter-productive” to the goal of promoting “pro-social behavior and thinking” among inmates. “Pornographic materials are exploitative and create a hostile work environment for (prison) staff members,” Scott wrote. “These materials do not promote a positive culture and distract inmates and staff from focusing on the (department’s) vision of safe prisons, transformed lives and safe communities.” Other states have adopted similar bans. Scott actually came to Nebraska from Washington, where its state prison system banned all pornography in 2004. A Nebraska prison spokeswoman, Dawn-Renee Smith, said the policy change had been discussed for some time and was part of the “positive changes” being undertaken to “create a safer, more re-entry-focused environment.” Courts have generally upheld these kinds of bans, so Nebraska’s ban is likely to stand against any legal challenges. In Pennsylvania, for example in 2009, the Pennsylvania corrections department presented statistics that showed that prison assaults and sexual misconduct cases dropped after a ban was imposed. But how un-American. Fuck Nebraska, Washington and Pennsylvania. We view an assault on porn anywhere as an assault on porn everywhere. We just can’t agree.

Alabama joins South Carolina in seeking to block porn on all computers and devices sold in the state. Rep. Jack Williams, R-Vestavia Hills, has a new bill that is soon to hit the floor of the Alabama house. A public hearing was scheduled yesterday on the bill, which would require sellers of computers, cell phones and other devices that provide Internet access to have a filter to block pornography. Pornography, according to Jack is child pornography, obscene material, sexual cyber-harassment and promotions of prostitution. Buyers would have to make a written request to the seller to unlock the filter and pay a $20 fee to the state to benefit crime victims and human trafficking victims. Under the bill, a seller who sells a device without a filter to a minor would be guilty of a felony, and of a misdemeanor for selling to an adult. “This gets a conversation started on how do you find an approach that protects the rights and liberties of everybody involved,” Jack said. He added, it was easier before the Internet, when “A 10-year-old shows up at the local porn shop and they say, ‘Sorry, you can’t come in.'” But according to Randall Marshall, legal director for the ACLU of Alabama, this bill won’t get very far, because of that pesky U.S. Constitution. “The notion that you have to jump through some hoops as an adult to access free information on the Internet violates the First Amendment,” Randall said. “This is censorship, plain and simple.” So don’t get your panties in a bunch just yet.

When we first heard this story, we thought it was “fake news.” Cause, there is a lot of that going around these days. But we have since confirmed that Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of design label Eckhaus Latta actually have recruited amateur couples to pose having sex for their new spring 2017 campaign. In an interview W magazine, Mike and Zoe discussed their campaign, shot by photographer Heji Shin. “We were thinking of how we were using sexuality, the relationship between fashion advertising and sexuality—and in very direct terms saying sex sells,” Heji said. Zoe added, “We weren’t covering people in oil—that’s actually their sweat, you know? We’ve really wanted to play with the principles around advertising, but it had to be authentic and it had to be real people. If it was simulated, it would have really lost the whole intention behind the shoot.” Where did they find these eager couples? Craigslist of course. But it wasn’t easy. “[The participants] were all excited about it, and wanted to do it—and to do it in the context of the Eckhaus Latta ad campaigns. It was actually pretty real,” Heji said. “Of course, sometimes you have to stage small things, like putting hair on another side. But, other things are very hard to stage—with guys, for example, you have to be quick.” The pictures, while hardcore sex, were still pixelated to remove any of the good stuff. But it is still damn pornographic for fashion, even if censored.

Israeli legislators have approved a bill blocking all porn in the state of Israel, unless you specifically request access from your provider. The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved the bill. If you want to access porn online in Israel, you will have to notify your internet service provider either by writing to them, calling them directly or notifying them through their website. From here, the bill to the Knesset (the full legislature) for approval and passage into law. The bill’s sponsor, Shuli Moalem-Refaeli, responded to criticism saying, “This isn’t Iran. As parliamentarians and public leaders, we must put up road signs that say ‘this is how we think society should behave. The average age that children are exposed to pornographic sites is 8. I don’t think it is right for us to leave things like that.” She added, “In the balance between the private individual and society we take a wide view. We are calling to create a society that protects itself from things for which we pay a heavy price. A person who is interested in these sites needs to understand that at the moment Israel is in a process, that he is an individual but part of a whole society.” It may not be Iran, but Israel now joins China, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Kuwait, Mali, Qatar, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, South Korea and Iran in blocking porn.

Pamela Anderson, who has posed nude on the cover of Playboy magazine more than any other woman and whose sex tape with rocker Tommy Lee is the gold standard by which all celebrity sex tapes are measured, now wants you to stop watching porn. What the fuck, you say? You heard correct, Pamela Anderson of all people is now decrying the evils of porn along with Rabbi Shumley Biotech (and ain’t that a pair), in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Take the Pledge: No More Indulging Porn.” They use the example of disgraced sexting addict former congressman Anthony Weiner as if his pathology is common to all men (and maybe it is, maybe not). While clearly written by the Rabbi and endorsed by Pamela for publicity, there are a few interesting rhetorical tidbits, if you were opened to being convinced to give up your porn, which we doubt, but for fuck’s sake, here goes:

From our respective positions of rabbi-counselor and former Playboy model and actress, we have often warned about pornography’s corrosive effects on a man’s soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father. This is a public hazard of unprecedented seriousness given how freely available, anonymously accessible and easily disseminated pornography is nowadays.
Put another way, we are a guinea-pig generation for an experiment in mass debasement that few of us would have ever consented to, and whose full nefarious impact may not be known for years. How many families will suffer? How many marriages will implode? How many talented men will scrap their most important relationships and careers for a brief onanistic thrill? How many children will propel, warp-speed, into the dark side of adult sexuality by forced exposure to their fathers’ profanations?
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All people are unique individuals and we can be sure that Mr. Weiner’s problems are at least in part a matter of his personal psycho-pathologies. Yet his behavior squares with what we have observed with all too many men, especially in the U.S. or other Western countries that enjoy liberal values and material prosperity. These are men who, by any objective measure, have succeeded yet regard themselves as failures. These are men who feel marooned in lassitude because they enjoy physical security, who feel bereft and bored even if they are blessed to have the committed love of a wife or girlfriend. These are men who believe that cruising the internet for explicit footage of other women or sharing such images of themselves over the remote communication offered by smartphones are risqué but risk-free distractions from the tedium.
The march of technology is irreversible and we aren’t so naive as to believe that any kind of imposed regulation could ever reseal the Pandora’s box of pornography. What is required is an honest dialogue about what we are witnessing—the true nature and danger of porn—and an honor code to tamp it down in the collective interests of our well-being as individuals, as families and as communities.

Nope, not convinced. So to get you back on track, here is a nude picture of none other than anti-porn crusader Pamela Anderson.

Back in June 2015, Judicial Watch, a D.C.-based foundation that focuses on uncovering governmental misconduct, filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for “[a]ll pornographic material collected during and/or after the U.S. military operation in Abbotabad, Pakistan on or about May 1, 2011 that killed Osama bin Laden” as well as a “catalog or index” of all of those materials that would have been prepared after their seizure. They want Osama bin Laden’s porn. The CIA apparently never responded, so now Judicial Watch is suing in federal court in Washington, D.C. to get their hands on Osama’s porn, saying, “Plaintiff is being irreparably harmed by reason of Defendant’s unlawful withholding of records responsive to Plaintiff’s FOIA request, and Plaintiff will continue to be irreparably harmed unless Defendant is compelled to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law.” The big question everyone wants to know, of course, is what was Osama’s fetish? BBW? Muslim women? Transexuals? Hopefully we will all know soon. All we have to go on now is Reuter’s description that Osama’s porn stash “consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive,” citing current and former U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

India waged a full scale assault on porn over the weekend. The Indian government ordered Internet service providers to block access to 857 pornography websites that had been singled out by an anti-pornography activist. Indians are in revolt. The government action comes on the heels of a recent Indian Supreme Court ruling refusing to block pornography, saying that adults had a fundamental right to watch pornography in the privacy of their homes. But Indian officials disagreed and some are pleased, including the lawyer who argued for blocking porn to the Indian Supreme Court. “Under Prime Minister Modi’s good governance and the good faith with which this government has been working,” Madhya Vaswani said in an interview, “they have been instrumental in blocking the 857 websites that I have been looking to get blocked.” Madhya has a very low opinion of porn, which now seems endorsed by the Indian government. “Nothing can more efficiently destroy a person, fizzle their mind, evaporate their future, eliminate their potential or destroy society like pornography,” Madhya wrote in his petition to the Supreme Court. “It is worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS, cancer or any other epidemic,” he added. “It is more catastrophic than nuclear holocaust, and it must be stopped.”

Social media and porn lovers everywhere have responded. Nikhil Pahwa, editor and publisher of MediaNama, which monitors digital policy in India, said he feared that the Modi government was using pornography as “a ruse” to create a government-controlled web filter for India. “This one is a clear attempt by this government to control the Internet in India,” he said in an interview. “It’s not just one incident. There are numerous battles, all linked to one another, for free speech and Internet freedom that are being fought in the country right now.” Yup, first they came for the porn, and we said nothing….

Brooklyn will host the inaugural New York City Porn Film Festival, this February 27, 2015 through March 1. And they are currently seeking amateur films, art films, shorts, one-minute clips, talks, discussions and “everything porno.” This new porn film festival is focused on “mainly veiled yet enthralling part of our mainstream culture.” Co-organizer Simon Leahy had this to say about the festival: “We live in a hyper-sexualized society but some have archaic Victorian values around sex. Porn is something we all take part in, whether it be jacking off behind closed doors or walking down the street consuming an image of Nicki Minaj’s butt. To progress culture we need to have these conversions to challenge the older values around sex and sexuality. Homosex and hetrosex need to find meeting points — ideally, we want to spark the next sexual revolution. I want to live in a world in which these labels don’t exist. I would like to point out that the festival isn’t a ‘queer’ festival or a ‘hetro’ festival. We want to include the full range of sexualities, fetishes and genders.” It’s being held at Secret Project Robot, located at 389 Melrose Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11237.

Pornographers aren’t a creative lot when it comes to naming things. “Drone Boning” is probably the worst name for a porn flick as incredibly unique and in some instances breath-taking as this one is. But it’s porn. And they aren’t that creative. But porn is very creative when it comes to technology, and using video drones to create porn scenes is on the cutting edge (of technology, though the porn isn’t all that spectacular). “The plan was to take beautiful landscapes and just put people fucking in them,” one of the filmmakers told New York Magazine. Creator Brandon LaGanke told Vice.com that they wanted to explore the idea of “make porn, not war.” But he admitted, “I would never shoot a real porn like this. If you can’t masturbate to it, man, it’s not a good pornography film.” We were pretty impressed by the footage, if not the fucking and the name.